Motivational Quotes

Ideas

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Ideas

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

Kettering, Charles F.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.

Chartier, Alain

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

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Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.

Penny, A. Owen

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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Caird, Mona

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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Townsend, Robert

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Berry, John

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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calisher

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An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.

Bunche, Ralph

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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

James, William

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A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Judith Brocklehurst

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Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Williamson, Marianne

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Bach, Richard

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Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Hugo, Victor

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If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.

Sutton, Percy

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

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All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

Paolo Giordano

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

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So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

J. B. S. Haldane

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The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Bragg, Sir William

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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...

Mckeun, Rod

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

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Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.